Doctors misdiagnose cancer signs as an expiring IUD: case
The report authors say it's important for all patients with irregular vaginal bleeding to have endometrial biopsy
Doctors have been reminded to consider endometrial cancer in patients who have vaginal bleeding with hormonal IUDs, after a delayed cancer diagnosis in a UK woman.
The woman’s gynaecologist assumed her intermittent bleeding was due to the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system expiring but it turned out to be due to endometrial cancer.
